O'Donnell, M.H. 2008. Nineteen-sixties radicalism and its critics: radical utopians, liberal realists and postmodern sceptics. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 13 (3), pp. 240-260. https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2008.7
| Title | Nineteen-sixties radicalism and its critics: radical utopians, liberal realists and postmodern sceptics |
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| Authors | O'Donnell, M.H. |
| Abstract | This article analyses the psychodynamics underlying 1960s radicalism – termed the Movement – in the United States and, more briefly, Britain. The Movement was heuristic and characterized by "utopian" and "humanistic" tendencies. The main sections deal respectively with the counterculture and the New Left. Criticisms of the Movement by liberals contemporary with the radicals and those of more recent commentators are addressed. Analysis of the radical/liberal debate examines two related themes: conflicting psychoanalytic interpretations of the Movement and "the end of ideology" debate. The main ideological formations dealt with are characterized as radical utopianism, liberal realism and postmodern scepticism. |
| Keywords | Radicalism, utopian, liberal, realism, participatory democracy |
| Journal | Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society |
| Journal citation | 13 (3), pp. 240-260 |
| ISSN | 1088-0763 |
| Year | Sep 2008 |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2008.7 |
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| Published | Sep 2008 |